Photo Credit Iromaya Images/Iromaya/Getty Images. Thiamine, also known as vitamin B-1, is one of the B vitamins. Thiamine is a water-soluble vitamin, meaning it washes out of your body in urine, and isn't stored in fat cells like some other vitamins.You need to replenish levels of thiamine regularly, by eating foods rich in this vitamin, or through supplements.Thiamine plays an important role in several bodily functions.igestion. Thiamine helps you take advantage of vitamins and minerals in foods you eat. Photo Credit Hongqi Zhang/iStock/Getty Images. When you eat, food travels down the esophagus to the stomach, where hydrochloric acid digests the food so your body can use nutrients from it.
The adipocytes of white adipose tissue secrete several hormones, including leptin and adiponectin. In addition to serving as a major source of energy reserves, white adipose tissue also provides some mechanical protection and insulation to the body.rown adipose tissue is present in small mammals (e.g., mice) and in newborn humans. Most of it disappears in adult humans. The cells in both types of fat are called adipocytes although they differ in origin, structure, and function in the two types of tissue.
When the blood glucose is elevated, the pancreas secretes insulin and when the blood glucose falls, it secretes glucagons. 3) nervous system to glandâSome glands secrete hormones in direct response to the nervous system. For example, the adrenal medulla secretes a hormone in response to sympathetic nerve impulses.For information on specific endocrine glands, see the table on the following pages. All body functions are influenced by the endocrine glands; there are no processes that are NOT affected by hormone signaling.arget cells are specific to the hormone; a hormone specific to a target cell can only affect that target tissue because of the presence of receptors for the hormone on the target cells. Some endocrine glands are so complex and so specific that certain sections of the gland produce different hormones.